Unity Ceremony Ideas!

Unity ceremonies are meant to further symbolize the joining of two people. Some people choose candles, each person has their own candle that they both use them to light the one unity candle. There is the sand ceremony, each person has a bottle of colored sand they pour into a container the couple keeps as a reminder that grains of sand are difficult to separate. My FW and I will be doing a handfasting to symbolize not only our union, but represents the trust we put in the other's hands. We hold hands and the officiant binds our hands with a cord I had made in our colors. He then blesses us and our marriage. It's an old tradition that will also represent our British Isles heritage.

We're considering doing a glass pouring unity ceremony, where we'll order the glass pieces in our colors from a company and then afterwards we would mail the joined glass back and get a glass sculpture made. It's a little pricey but the symbolism and results are beautiful.

That sounds beautiful!

FH and I are debating between two options. Our first thought was a whiskey blending ceremony where we would each have a whiskey and would pour it into a small whiskey barrel then save it to drink on an anniversary. But more recently we are thinking about doing a tie blanket ceremony, which is a lot more of an "us" thing. Basically we would have a blanket mostly made, then we would tie the last few knots together for the ceremony.